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1 What Is an MLA-Style Essay? MLA (Modern Language Association) style is used mostly for analyzing documents in English and other humanities courses. When using material from a source, MLA style emphasizes identifying the author of the source. The MLA document format requires the following elements (see fig. 1): 1. A running header in the top right margin: your last name, a space, and the page number. 2. Below, on the first page only, is the heading (left justified and double spaced): Your Name Instructor s Name Class Date 3. On the next line, the title of the essay is centered. Capitalize the first and last words of your title and all the words in between except articles, prepositions, FANBOYS, and to in infinitive verbs Fig. 1. Example of First Page of MLA Paper 4. Everything except the header is double-spaced, left-justified, with one-inch margins. Use plain 12-point Times New Roman or Calibri, no decorative fonts, not even for your title. 5. Press the Tab key to indent the first line of each paragraph ½ inch, with no extra line spacing between paragraphs. Bellevue College does not discriminate on the basis of race or ethnicity; creed; color; national origin; sex; marital status; sexual orientation; age; religion; genetic information; the presence of any sensory, mental, or physical disability; gender identity or veteran status in educational programs and activities which it operates... Please see policy 4150 for more information.

2 MLA In-text Citation Being Clear About Who Says What The first time you introduce a text, give the full name and credential of the author (X), the title, and name the genre of the work (article from famous newspaper, trade journal, academic journal, TED Talk, university course website, conference presentation, etc.) in a signal phrase. Use a present tense or present perfect verb that indicates how the author says the information. The page number, if applicable, is given in parentheses before the period: In his/her named genre, Title, X argues that (page #). In her Times article Insurance Reform, journalist Mary Moe argues that (57). After that first time, you may refer to the same author by his or her family name. Sample Templates for Introducing Quotations in MLA Style X states, (##). As the prominent philosopher/teacher/businessman X puts it, (##). According to X, (##). Writing in the journal Commentary, X complains that (##). In X s view, (##). X agrees/disagrees when she writes, (##). X complicates matters further when he writes, (##). Sample Templates for Introducing Challenges to What X Says in MLA Style A number of have recently suggested that X s work has several fundamental problems. It has become common today for to dismiss X s contribution to the field of. In their recent work, Title, Y and Z have offered harsh critiques of Dr. X for. If the source information is not in the sentence, put the author s last name and the page number in parentheses after the quotation or paraphrase. You do not need to write the title within the parentheses unless you cite more than one work by the same author (or works by authors with the same last name) in your paper. If you cite several facts from 2

3 A) First source B) Same author, different source. the same source, one after the other, you should include the author s last name and the page number in the first citation. In the following citations, use only the page number. However, if you cite another work, then you need to write the author s name again: People who grew up there complain that Seattle is a damp city to live in (Wetly, Memoirs 219). This A dampness, in fact, leads to frequent minor illnesses among the population in general (Wetly, Dripping 204). Often, B these illnesses can last through the winter, and in at least one case, a common cold dragged on for an entire hanky-soaked year (274). Cite both a quotation and the author of the work in which it is found when they are different people: Peter Whybrow, a neuroscientist who examines America s economy and culture in his book American Mania, says Operating in a world of instant communication with minimal social tethers,... America s engines of commerce and desire [have become] turbocharged (McKibben 123). As in the above example, if you need to omit part of a quote, use three spaced periods to show where the words were left out. If you need to insert or substitute a word or words in a quote, put square brackets around the substitution. If your source is electronic and has no page numbers, you may identify the author in your sentence and omit a parenthetical citation. Furthermore, if your source has no author, you may put a shortened version of its title in the parentheses, punctuated according to the source type, instead. C C) Same source as B, different page Long Quotes Fig. 2. Example of a Long Block Quote If you have a quotation that is more than four lines when typed into your essay, write an introduction to the quote, then start the quote on the next line; if your introduction is a sentence, end it with a colon. Indent all lines of the quote half an inch from the left margin. Put the parenthetical citation after the period at 3

4 the end of the quote. Do not use quotation marks. MLA Works Cited Page After your essay, on a separate page, list the works named in the paper. Center the heading Works Cited at the top of the page. Then type out the entries for each work and arrange them in alphabetical order by each primary author s last name. If there is no author named, use the title (not including a, an, or the for the alphabetizing). Fig. 3. Example of MLA Works Cited Page Format Start a new paragraph for each work, but keep everything the same double line spacing as the rest of the paper. In Word, after typing out your works cited list, highlight the text and move (the bottom two portions of the slider) ½-inch to the right on the ruler, leaving the top part in place like this to create hanging indents. Works Cited Entries in MLA 8 th Edition Style The MLA Handbook 8th edition uses a template of nine core elements and the idea of containers to organize the information you should provide in your list of works cited. Each core element is separated from the next by a period or a comma. If a source doesn t have an element, you may find the information in another reliable source and add it in square brackets, or just skip it. The goal is to clearly provide identification of your source, regardless of its medium, with information relevant to your work. 4

5 The Nine Core Elements with Punctuation 1) Author. Authors may be individuals or organizations. ONE AUTHOR: Alexie, Sherman. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. Little, Brown, TWO AUTHORS: Suzuki, David, and Amanda McConnell. The Sacred Balance: Rediscovering our Place in Nature. Greystone Books, THREE OR MORE AUTHORS: Hartwell, Leland H., et al. Genetics: From Genes to Genomes. McGraw-Hill Higher Education, EDITOR AS AUTHOR: Isay, Dave, editor. Listening is an Act of Love. Penguin Books, GOVERNMENT AGENCY AS AUTHOR: Omit The before the name of any organization in the works cited list. If a government agency is the author, identify the government first, then the next smaller unit(s) that the agency is part of, and finally the agency followed by a period. United States, Department of Commerce, Economics and Statistics Administration, Census Bureau. Statistical Abstract of the United States. 128th ed., Government Printing Office, ) Title of source. If the title of a source is for a shorter work such as an article, an episode of a TV series, an message, a song, a poem contained within a larger work, it should follow standard title capitalization and be enclosed in quotation marks. If the source is a book or a movie, for example, then the title should follow standard title capitalization and be italicized. The title of the source is punctuated with a period. 5

6 Graff, Gerald and Cathy Berkenstein. They Say/I Say: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing. 3rd ed., Norton, The C-Word. House. Directed by Hugh Laurie, FOX Television Network, 30 Apr McRae, Sheiresa. Go Green! Black Enterprise, Aug. 2007, p. 133, EBSCOhost Academic Search Complete, web.a.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail/detail?sid=a0577f8b-b33d- 4ca ede4dfa9ea4%40sessionmgr4007&vid=0&hid=4002&bdata= JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=bth&AN= ) Title of container, The container may be any larger work that contains the source: e.g., a book, a periodical, a TV series, a web site, a blog; in turn, those containers may be inside larger containers with their own titles: a network of blogs (like WordPress), or the network containing a TV series (like Hulu, or Netflix, or Home Box Office). The container title is followed by a comma. ONE CONTAINER: Adams, Douglas. Parrots the Universe and Everything. YouTube, 22 May 2008, Hacker, Diana, and Nancy Sommers. Reading and Writing Critically. A Writer s Reference, contributing ESL specialist, Kimberli Huster, 8th ed., Bedford/St. Martin s, 2015, pp TWO CONTAINERS: Hernandez, Javier C. Racial Imbalance Persists at Elite Schools. New York Times, 8 Nov. 2008, p. A23, ProQuest National Newspapers Core Collection. In the above example, the first CONTAINER is The New York Times, and the version, number, publisher, publication date and location describes it. Then, in addition, this entire New York Times is located in ANOTHER CONTAINER, a database: ProQuest National Newspapers Core Collection. 4) Other contributors, 6

7 Abdullahi, Mohamed Diriye. Mogadishu. Encyclopedia of African History, edited by Kevin Shillington, vol. 2, Fitzroy Dearborn, 2005, pp Galeano, Eduardo. Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent, translated by Cedric Belfrage, foreword by Isabelle Allende, 25th Anniversary Edition, Monthly Review Press, Tigre, Tony D. Re: Gazelle. Received by Kapitano J. Squirrel, 21 June ) Version, Roddenberry, Gene, Alan Dean Foster, and Harold Livingston. Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Director s edition, Paramount Pictures, ) Number, Hoyle, Brian D., and K. Lee Lerner. "Enhanced Greenhouse Effect." The Gale Encyclopedia of Science, edited by K. Lee Lerner and Brenda Wilmoth Lerner, 5th ed., vol. 3, Gale/Cengage Learning, 2014, pp , Gale Virtual Reference Library, go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?p=gvrl&sw=w&u=bellevue&v=2.1& id=gale%7ccx &it=r&asid=199e c bf37f0. Khalaf, Roseanne Saad. Youthful Voices in Post-War Lebanon. Middle East Journal, vol. 63, no. 1, 2009, pp ) Publisher, Leonard, Robert Sean, performer. Everybody Dies. House, FOX Television Network, 21 May Londer, Olga M., and Penelope Coventry. Microsoft SharePoint 2013: Step by Step. Microsoft Press,

8 If author and publisher are the same, start with the title of the work, and list only the organization as the publisher. 8) Publication date, Tropical Cyclone Climatology. National Weather Service Central Pacific Hurricane Center. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 12 May 2016, 9) Location. This is the element that still depends most on the medium of your source: print sources and PDFs have page numbers, online sources have URLs, DVD sets have disc numbers, and online journal articles can have DOIs. When providing a URL, omit or and use the actual web address, not a shortened version from a third party. (If your instructor prefers that you not include a URL, follow your instructor!) Even exhibits, artifacts in archives, performances, and lectures may be cited with their physical locations, if relevant to your writing. Egan, Mary Lou, and Marc Bendick, Jr. Combining Multicultural Management and Diversity into One Course on Cultural Competence. Academy of Management Learning & Education, vol. 7, no. 3, 2008, pp EBSCOhost Business Source Complete. doi: /AMLE Katel, Peter. Opioid Crisis. CQ Researcher, 7 Oct. 2016, vol. 26, no. 35, pp , library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/cqresrre

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